LGB HistoryDifferences between the transgender ideological movement and the gay rights movement.

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[–]luckystar 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

-Medicalization (no hormones, surgery, or therapy needed for LGB).

-Trying to become another rather than defining oneself as different (LGB didn't campaign to be considered straight but rather to have LGB have equal rights as straight ppl; TWAW and TMAM by definition is redefining two other marginalized groups: women and LGB, by claiming to be the same as members of them)

[–]KCStuffedAnimal 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Medicalization of identity, yes. Another difference is the closet. We wanted to come out! Transfolk, by and large, seem to want to go into the closet. They want to forget that they're transgender and dammit, they want everyone else to forget, too. Recognition of difference between biological sex and sex determined by gender identity? Das ist verboten!!! Society is supposed to help them keep their closet doors shut. And I might add, Trans concepts of what it means to be a man or a woman seem wedded to the worst gender stereotypes. We fought against that. LGB folk tried to expand the range of appropriate ways to express one's gender. Now you can't be a nelly guy or a butch lady without some jackass wanting to label you "genderqueer" or "non-binary".

[–]notdelusionalbased faggot[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Nelly! I haven't heard that in ages!

[–]KCStuffedAnimal 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

I'm an old fart. I've got a lot of vintage words like that stored in my pillbox.